John C. Bennett records a list of petitions for admission in Nauvoo Masonic Lodge Minute Book 1 questionably received prior to the installation of the lodge.
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- Meeting Minutes / Notes
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- Holograph
- Reference
Lodge Minutes for December 30, 1841, Nauvoo Masonic Lodge minutes (Nauvoo Masonic Lodge Minute Book 1), John C. Bennett Copy, MS 9115, Church History Library, pp. 9–10
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- Nauvoo Freemasons
- Transcription
The following members then reported themselves to hail from the lodges appended to their names respectively, to wit: George Miller, Widows son, No. [illegible], Pa. ; . . . and Asahel Perry, Augusta, N. Y.
The following named persons preferred petitions for memberships ^initiation, to wit: Joseph Smith, aged 36, merchant; Willard Richards, aged 37, merchant . . . J. B. Backenstos, aged 30, merchants, of Carthage; . . . Wm. F. Cahoon, aged 27, carpenter; . . .
Resolved, that Grand Master Jonas be requested to attend at the installation, together with such friends, as he may wish to invite, at the expense fo the lodge.
- BHR Staff Commentary
John C. Bennett was excommunicated in May 1842.
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